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Here are the top 2,100 authors and 1,000 illustrators from the whole heritage of children’s literature. And also the top Editors, Translators, and Compilers.

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A. Y. D.

This may have been Anne Yeomans Doxley. She was a friend and contemporary of Randolph Caldecott’s wife. We have not yet found a reliable biography or photograph of this person. Do you have any information you could share with us? If so, please ... View More

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Verna Aardema

Verna Norberg Aardema Vugteveen, best known by the name Verna Aardema, was an American writer of children's books. Her book Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears won the prestigious Caldecott Medal in 1976.... View More

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Lived:
1911 - 2000

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Jacob Abbott

Jacob Abbott was an American author of children’s books, best known for his ‘Rollo’ and ‘Franconia’ series of stories.

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Lived:
1803 - 1879

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Moreton Abbott

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Harriette Sheffer Abels

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Sherred Willcox Adams

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Kathleen Adams

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Andy Adams

American author Andy Adams lived as a real cowboy and gold miner. Then he wrote seven books.

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Author

Lived:
1859 - 1935

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Henry Brooks Adams

Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and member of the Adams political family. He descended from two U.S. Presidents. His posthumously published memoir, The Education of Henry Adams, won the Pulitzer Prize.... View More

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Lived:
1838 - 1918

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Charles Marshall Adams

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Compiler

Lived:
1907 - 1990

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Richard Adams

Richard George Adams was an English novelist best known as the author of Watership Down. He studied modern history at the university before serving in the British Army during World War II. Afterward he completed his studies and then joined the Britis... View More

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Author

Lived:
1920 - 2016

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Doris Adelberg (Doris Orgel)

Doris Adelberg was born in Vienna, Austria. She married Shelley Orgel. She currently lives in New York City and is a full-time children’s author.

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Lived:
1929 - 0 B.C.

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Janeen R. Adil

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0 B.C. - 0 B.C.

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Irving Adler

Irving Adler was an author, mathematician, scientist, political activist and educator. He was the author of 57 books (some under the pen name Robert Irving) about mathematics, science, and education, and the co-author of 30 more, for both children an... View More

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Author

Lived:
1913 - 2012

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David A. Adler

David Abraham Adler is an American writer of nearly 200 books for children and young adults, most notably the Cam Jansen mystery series, the “Picture Book of ...” series, and several acclaimed works about the Holocaust for young readers.... View More

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Author

Lived:
1947 - 0 B.C.

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Arnold Adoff

Arnold Adoff is an American children's writer and anthologist. He has published more than 30 books.

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Author

Lived:
1935 - 0 B.C.

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Mary Adshead

Mary Adshead was an English painter, muralist, illustrator and designer. Working with her husband, she illustrated two children’s books.

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Author
Illustrator

Lived:
1904 - 1995

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Aesop

Aesop was an Ancient Greek fabulist and story teller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.

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Author

Lived:
620 B.C. - 564 B.C.

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Miriam Agatha (Agatha le Breton)

Miriam Agatha was a pseudonym used by the Australian Catholic author Agatha Magdalen le Breton. She taught in various Catholic schools in Sydney and in Queensland, and used most of her spare time writing short stories and, later, a children's novel.... View More

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Lived:
1886 - 1970

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William C. Agee

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Lived:
1936 - 0 B.C.

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